Binge drinking is booming — among boomers.
In fact, more than one in 10 Americans ages 65 and older are binge drinkers, according to a New York University study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on Wednesday, which is defined as having five or more drinks during one occasion for men, and four or more for women.
“Older adults are especially vulnerable to the harms of alcohol use, especially binge drinking, due to physiological changes of aging and the higher likelihood of having more chronic medical disease and taking more prescribed medications,” lead study author Benjamin Han told MarketWatch. He’s the assistant professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care at NYU Langone hospital.
They also found that these older imbibers are more likely to be male and use tobacco or cannabis. They were also statistically more likely to be non-Hispanic African-American, to have family incomes under $20,000, and to have visited an emergency room in the past year. And the most common chronic diseases suffered by these binge drinkers were hypertension , cardiovascular disease and diabetes .
The study notes that the alarming statistics in this study may be underestimated, however, as the subjects self-reported their alcohol use, and some may have downplayed their actually consumption due to social stigma. After all, American thirst for alcohol led to spending $71 billion on wine last year. And Boomers spent more money on alcohol over the course of a year than millennials in 2016, according to a NerdWallet report. And almost 30% of U.S.
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